She released a video claiming to be a lovelorn French tourist on a mission to be reunited with her lover - the father of her unborn child.

But a new video reveals it was all a crass hoax.

At the start of the new video, uploaded to YouTube, the woman purporting to be tourist Natalie Amyot, appears with a man and says “I found him" before she disappears from the screen.

He’s not quite the man most people would have pictured from her description in the initial video ... in fact, he’s just Sunshine Coast businessman Andy Sellar peddling his social media business.

He also says he was trying to put Mooloolaba on the map.

Sellar was quick to defend the young woman in the video, who is believed to be a Sunshine Coast marketing student.

“Now I know there is going to be a lot of you upset by this, maybe not too happy, but this young lady was just volunteering this, I did all the Facebook, all the YouTube, all the answering, she had nothing to do with that,” he says.

“We just wanted to put Mooloolaba on the map, it’s a wonderful place, so thank you for watching.”

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